03113nam 22007214a 450 991081636510332120080321103954.01-283-02258-397866130225850-8223-8873-110.1515/9780822388739(CKB)1000000000757391(EBL)1169870(OCoLC)763072999(SSID)ssj0000390594(PQKBManifestationID)12133851(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000390594(PQKBWorkID)10450094(PQKB)10505314(OCoLC)191855693(MiAaPQ)EBC1169870191855693(OCoLC)1086539264(MdBmJHUP)muse80036(DE-B1597)552573(DE-B1597)9780822388739(EXLCZ)99100000000075739120080206d2008 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrFreedom's empire race and the rise of the novel in Atlantic modernity, 1640-1940 /Laura DoyleDurham Duke University Press20081 online resource (593 p.)Description based upon print version of record.0-8223-4159-X 0-8223-4135-2 Includes bibliographical references (p. [507]-553) and index.Atlantic horizon, interior turn: seventeenth-century racial revolution -- Liberty's historiography: James Harrington to Mercy Otis Warren -- The poetics of liberty and the racial sublime -- Entering atlantic history: Oroonoko, Imoinda, and Behn -- Rape as entry into liberty: Haywood and Richardson -- Transatlantic seductions: Defoe, Rowson, Brown, and Wilson -- Middle-passage plots: Defoe, Equiano, Melville -- At liberty's limits: Walpole and Lewis -- Saxon dissociation in Brockden Brown -- Dispossession in Jacobs and Hopkins -- Freedom by removal in Sedgwick -- "A" for Atlantic in Hawthorne -- Freedom's eastward turn in Eliot's Daniel Deronda -- Trickster epic in Hopkins's contending forces -- Queering freedom's theft in Nella Larsen -- Woolf's queer atlantic oeuvre.A sweeping argument that from the mid-seventeenth century until the mid-twentieth, the English-language novel encoded ideas equating race with liberty.e-Duke books scholarly collection.American fictionHistory and criticismEnglish fictionHistory and criticismRace in literatureLiberty in literatureModernism (Literature)American fictionHistory and criticism.English fictionHistory and criticism.Race in literature.Liberty in literature.Modernism (Literature)823/.009355823.009355Doyle Laura(Laura Anne)703414MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910816365103321Freedom's empire1360028UNINA